Design-Based Research of an ESP Coursebook: Results of a Questionnaire Survey

The article presents the research methodology and the first results of design-based research of an ESP coursebook carried out in cooperation between the Institute for Research in School Education of the Faculty of Education at Masaryk University and the Department of Foreign Languages of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication, Brno University of Technology in Brno. Besides the gradual development of the coursebook, design-based research contributes to the development of both a dominant theory, in this case the theory of design and evaluation of ESP coursebooks and new theories leading to an educational reform not only in ESP teaching and learning. The following chapters focus on research design, research tool and samples characteristics, data analysis and interpretation resulting from a questionnaire survey.